On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 23:25:39 -0400 (AST), skidley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
>
> > LM8.1 supports PNP, 8.0 did not.
> >
> > While turning PNP off is a good suggestion if you are having
> > difficulties, you should not resort to this until a problem ar
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
> LM8.1 supports PNP, 8.0 did not.
>
> While turning PNP off is a good suggestion if you are having
> difficulties, you should not resort to this until a problem arises.
>
> Leaving PNP on helps in dual boot situations too.
>
> I use ReiserFS on ALL of
XFS and the others have no apparent
problem.
Civileme
>
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 4:19 PM
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> Subject: Re: [newbie] PNP Bios - Off or
: [newbie] PNP Bios - Off or On?
> As part of the preparations for the LM 8.1 installation,
> I have copied my current /home/me to a separate partition
> (/archives) that is ext2fs. Am I correct that if I do an expert
> install, the / and /archives partitions can be ext2fs, and the
>
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 11:47, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
>
> I'm planning on installing (not updating) LM 8.1 over 8.0 this weekend. I've
> always been told that the PNP aware O/S option in BIOS should be set off, and
> that's what I've been doing in the past. Insofar as I know, whatever problems
>
Carroll,
> But in a recent post, Civilime advised someone to set
> PNP O/S on, although the Mandrake installation manual says
> off. Is this a change in the party line, or is the on
> setting used in problematic situations?
Actually the change is with the kernel. To quote Jose, who
shared thi